Fulham Prep - anyone want to sell me uniform for DS starting y7 in September?

[Fridayschild]

Well I think I have said it all in the thread title! He is quite tall for his age so really I am after someone who is about to leave year 8, I expect. I will post in the for sale / wanted sections as well, but if you know someone who might want to sell uniform to me that would be great. My experience of prep school uniform costs suggest that even a few ties and bits of sports kit second hand will save a fortune

Have you checked with the school re 2nd hand uniform sale? They must have one!

Thanks Josuk, they do. I was rather hoping to stumble across a leaver who could sell me the complete lot after the end of term. Fingers still crossed!

Sorry, OP, off topic but, if you don't mind, is your ds currently at a state or a prep school and why move at this stage? Have a good friend considering moving her ds to FP at y7 to prepare for common entrance and wondering if this is a popular choice. DM me if you'd prefer or feel free to ignore! Good luck with the uniform.

He is at another prep school at the moment and there is a long and complicated range of reasons for moving him. As Fulham prep is mixed they have lots of girls leave at the end of y6 and hence space for boys to join in y7. A single sex prep would probably have few spaces for y7 joiners.

The work preparing for common entrance really starts in y5 so if your friend's ds is moving at y7 from the state sector to do CE he needs to be a bright bunny who is going to work Really Hard: catch up on 2 years' of Latin for example. The other language is French (our local state school teaches Italian as a second language not French). I don't know what y6 English is like in the state sector but DS is coming home with comprehension papers from Pilgrim's Progress asking questions I would have struggled with at O level. This was a CE paper with the hard questions struck out to reflect he has 2 years to get up to that level. Some of the answers will be easier for him with a bit more maturity and in that sense there is no advantage to the years of expensive prep school education. But if the child is not used to that sort of thing it will come as a bit of a shock.

My other observation about CE is that it is incredibly cultural specific - it assumes an old fashioned English middle class education and upbringing. That might also be relevant to your friend.

However given that St Pauls will make offers for y9 places conditional on CE results to boys from state schools there are some people locally whose sons are clever and motivated and will try. I am sure your friend will be asking explicitly what experience the schools she is speaking to have in getting state school kids through CE. In her shoes I would want the school to have a track record in that.

If she is after chat on Fulham prep generally I am not your person I'm afraid, as we haven't started there yet. I am sure there are others on here who have DC at the school as it is a big one.

Thank you very much, that's v helpful and I'll show her (she is terrified of mn). Her son is in y4 now, it's a long-term game plan, so maybe she'll decide to move him earlier, FP is local to her so seemed an obvious choice.